Tibalt's Trickery
Tibalt's Trickery: Instant, Kaldheim. Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{R}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- Red (R)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Kaldheim (KHM)
- Released
- 2021-02-05
- Collector number
- 153
- Artist
- Anna Podedworna
- Keywords
- Mill
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About Tibalt's Trickery
Tibalt's Trickery is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare red instant from Kaldheim (KHM), an expansion set released in February 2021. It is collector number 153 in that set, with art by Anna Podedworna. It costs {1}{R} (one generic and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It is banned in Modern and Historic. It is restricted in Timeless. It has been printed in 4 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $12.87 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $12.87 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Tibalt's Trickery by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Banned |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Banned |
| Timeless | Restricted |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Tibalt's Trickery
Tibalt's Trickery has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #7027 | Rare | 2025 |
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #88316 | Rare | 2021 |
| Kaldheim (KHM) #360 | Rare | 2021 |
| Kaldheim Promos (PKHM) #153p | Rare | 2021 |
| Kaldheim Promos (PKHM) #153s | Rare | 2021 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Tibalt's Trickery, newest first.
- If the spell has {X} in its mana cost, they must choose 0 as the value of X.
- If there aren't any nonland cards in that library with a different name than the countered spell, the player will exile all cards from their library, revealing all of them, and then they'll put those cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.
- Tibalt's Trickery can target a spell that can't be countered. If Tibalt's Trickery resolves, the target spell won't be countered, but all of the other effects will still happen.
- If a player casts a spell "without paying its mana cost," they can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. They can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell.
- If the spell that's countered was the back face of a modal double-faced card, no card in the player's library will have the same name as that spell because those cards all use only their front-face characteristics while in the library; however, if the first card the player exiles that has a different name than the spell is a modal double-faced card, they may cast either face, even if the back face has the same name as the countered spell.
Similar cards
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